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  Anti-globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Members of the anti-globalization movement generally advocate socialist or social democratic alternatives to capitalist economics, and seek to protect the world's population and ecosystem from what they believe to be the damaging effects of globalization.
The anti-globalization movement as it is now known stems from the convergence of these different political experiences when their members began to demonstrate together at international meetings such as the Seattle WTO meeting of 1999 or Genoa G/8 summit in 2001.
Some see the movement as a critical response to the development of so-called neoliberalism, which is widely seen to have commenced with Margaret Thatcher's and Ronald Reagan's policies toward creating liaise-fare capitalism on a global scale by promoting the privatization of countries’ economies and the weakening of trade and business regulations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-globalization_movement   (5728 words)

  
 YCLUSA Online - The Anti-Globalization Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Globalization is the removal of barriers to unhindered international trade and capital flow.
Globalization is a threat to what we have achieved and what we may achieve in the future and remains a major threat to workers in the United States.
It is crucial that we remain engaged in and leaders of the anti-globalization movement.
www.yclusa.org /article/articleview/21/1/10   (1066 words)

  
 Anti-globalization movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Some factions of the movement reject globalization as such, but the overwhelming majority of its participants are aligned with movements of indigenous people, human rights NGO's, anarchism, green movements, and to a minor extent communism.
Some activists in the movement have objected not to capitalism or international markets as such but rather to what they claim is the non-transparent and undemocratic mechanisms; and the negative consequences of unregulated globalization.
Another criticism is that, although the movement protests about things that are widely recognised as serious problems (human rights violations, genocide, global warming), it rarely proposes detailed solutions, and those solutions that have been advocated are often what some people regard as failed variants of socialism, e.g.
www.peacelink.de /keyword/Anti-globalization_movement.php   (3221 words)

  
  Global Policy Forum - Globalization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Britain's World Development Movement, which over the years has taken on the UK government in court over the Pergau dam, campaigned against Rio Tinto and the governments of Europe and the US over Third World debt, is described by its director, Barry Coates, as the "shock troops" of the movement.
Global economic activism was not hatched on the barricades in the Pacific Northwest, but first mobilised from the pews of England's churches.
Danaher at Global Exchange, who describes himself as a man with "enough anger for 10 men", is one of the few sticking with the kind of analysis that was commonplace at the beginning of last month.
www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/define/2910.htm   (11689 words)

  
 Nationalism: The True Anti-Globalization Movement - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The Left resents that globalization is largely the result of the expansion of capitalism, especially financial capitalism.
The Leftist approach to the issue of globalization is riddled with contradictions, further weakening its claim to ownership of the issue.
Globalization is clearly radical, extreme, and dangerous because it disturbs tens of thousands of years of separate evolutionary development in a very short period of time.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=28750   (1525 words)

  
 Anti-globalization movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The anti-globalization movement is an effort to counter aspects of the current process of globalization (recent changes in the world economy involving an increase and intensification in the scale and density of global networks and circulations).
Many in France, claiming that their position is not so much an opposition to globalization than an opposition to the particular way it is taking place (neoliberal etc..), prefer their movement to be called altermondialism.
To show how closely linked the economic and military issues are in the eyes of the movement, one new statement of its human rights aims was written as the We Stand for Peace and Justice statement [1], leading in the USA to a coordination of the movement known as United for Peace and Justice [1].
usapedia.com /a/anti-globalization-movement-1.html   (3039 words)

  
 World Economic Forum Knowledge Navigator - The Future of the Anti-Globalization Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Globalization and the modern integrated global economy are here to stay.
But the danger is that excluding the discontented may leave the world with a dysfunctional global economy marked by unsustainable levels of inequality and poverty.
Support for the movement is growing as people see that ‘trickle down’ and ‘invisible hand’ theories do not deliver benefits equitably, Brey argued.
www.weforum.org /site/knowledgenavigator.nsf/Content/_S7636?open   (598 words)

  
 the landscape of anti-racism in the anti-globalization movement
The movement foundered, shrunk, retrenched, and emerged as two embattled and battling movements appearing side by side in New York in February and DC in September 2002.
Through the cathartic effects of this euphoric experience a new movement was born, which had little conception of the historical struggles underlying it, and credited itself with “giving birth to a new global movement” as it pocketed the greetings and congratulations coming from people around the world.
Reducing first world consumption is certainly not a sufficient strategy for confronting globalization, but it will be part of any plan for global justice, the real cost of which is not the risks we take in the streets but allowing third and fourth world peoples to keep their resources for their own uses.
www.chapman.edu /~starr/arag5103.htm   (8083 words)

  
 Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Part II
Treatments of the movement’s internal norms and debates attempt to clarify some of the driving issues within the movement, whereas those exploring its external alliances try to sketch out its differences with the official progressive opposition and parallel movements on the Right.
Expressions of the movement’s internal identity can be found in essays throughout the book, although the articulation of this theme tends to be more diffuse than others (which makes sense, given that the collection’s purpose is to constitute the movement).
This suggests that the movement is in a contradictory position in which the source of its popularity prevents it from growing and therefore realizing the potentials that made it so popular to begin with.
www.newformulation.org /2globalizationmorse.htm   (2741 words)

  
 Monthly Review September 2001 Barbara Epstein
But the movements of the sixties were driven by concerns that were more compatible with an expressive style of politics, with hostility to authority in general and state power in particular.
The influence of anarchism was strongest among radical feminists, in the commune movement, and probably in the Weather Underground and elsewhere in the violent fringe of the anti-war movement.
The greatest tactical strength of the movement, she argues, is its similarity to a swarm of mosquitoes.
www.monthlyreview.org /0901epstein.htm   (5270 words)

  
 Labor Notes - View from Ontario: How Labor Can Rebuild Anti-Globalization Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Labor people had always taken issue with the anarchist wing of the anti-globalization movement over “diversity of tactics.” They argued that it allowed demonstrations to be hijacked by those most committed to violent or inappropriate tactics.
If the principal goals of the movement are to win over and mobilize large numbers of working people, then the most militant tactics aren’t necessarily those that will have the most profound effects.
In Quebec City, large contingents from CUPE (public employees), the Steelworkers, and the CAW marched with the local Quebec labor movement and community and anti-globalization activists.
www.labornotes.org /archives/2002/08/d.html   (1019 words)

  
 Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement
The movement’s anti-authoritarian, revolutionary character is currently under attack by a informal network of reformists, who want nothing more than to see this movement accommodate itself to the basic structures of the present world.
Her final category is “delinking,” in which she treats movements that want to separate from global capital and build locally based alternatives to it, such as the anarchist movement, movements for sustainable development, the small businesses movement, sovereignty movements, and religious nationalist movements.
This tends to broaden her picture of the anti-globalization movement, given that the most exciting developments in the movement are not always the largest, most influential, or most likely to succeed.
www.newformulation.org /1antiglobalization.htm   (3366 words)

  
 Commentary: Global Goods for the Anti-Globalization Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
An anti-globalization group called “Anti-Marketing” defines globalization as “the process of exploiting economically weak countries by connecting the economies of the world, forcing dependence on (and ultimately servitude to) the western capitalist machine.” While this formulation may sound extreme, the same basic, perverted understanding of globalization has poisoned the minds of many.
The irony of the anti-globalization movement is that the protesters themselves are the beneficiaries of globalization and rely on it to bite the hand that feeds them.
I agree with you that "globalization" is used to mean many things, and that arguments against cultural domination, for example, should be kept separate from economic issues.
www.acton.org /ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=268   (1001 words)

  
 Is Zionism the new enemy of the anti-globalization movement?
Just as once "globalization", nowadays Zionism is more and more seen as the most important problem, and Palestinian flags and shawls have almost become the trademark of the movement.
At the recent huge demonstrations in Italy, where the anti-globalization movement probably is the strongest, Palestine seems to have become the central point of reference.
The wife of an imprisoned leader of the ultra nationalist Fatah movement was treated as a heroine on a special Palestine meeting.
www.gebladerte.nl /30046v01.htm   (1897 words)

  
 Anti-Globalization, Pro-Peace?
But for this young movement, as for seemingly everything else in American society, the Sept. 11 terror attacks could change everything.
Some activists suggest the movement's apparent retreat from the streets may be only temporary, an acknowledgement that now is simply not the time to be agitating.
The peace movement "does not seem to have the energy or the broad-based support that anti-globalization had," says William Fisher, director of Clark University's Program for International Development.
www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2001/10/peace.html   (991 words)

  
 FT.com - Special Reports / Counter-capitalism
A month ago the anti-globalisation movement was preparing its biggest protest ever.
It is also one of a handful of radical activist groups which this year have enjoyed a big lift thanks to Unilever, the consumer goods multinational.
The airport lounge on the return from Genoa was full of the movement's hard core.
specials.ft.com /countercap   (135 words)

  
 AlterNet: Globalization: The Anti-globalization Movement Changes Its Tune
A movement that crosses all national boundaries, that relies so heavily on electronic communications, that so effectively summons people to come from all over the world to march in the streets of whatever city might be hosting an economic conference was clearly a global one, however vigorously its rhetoric might condemn the evils of globalization.
A movement that aspires to "build a planetary society" is going to have to move beyond the protest stance and become more practical and proactive than it has been so far.
Unless it does, the best we have as alternatives to the present neo-liberal thrust of globalization are protectionism and socialism -- which didn't do a whole lot to solve the problems of previous centuries, and are not likely to prove the salvation of this one.
www.alternet.org /globalization/12423   (852 words)

  
 Schism in the Anti-Globalization Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The movement is noted for its transnational scope in its fight against increasing corporate and capitalist globalization.
But there are activists who are saying that the movement is suffering from a major internal crisis these days.
Any progress made is just as quickly erased when public perception of the anti-globalization movement as a whole is built on images of chaotic protests and violent activists.
www.journalism.ryerson.ca /online/lounge/chaos/jthian.htm   (1148 words)

  
 JS Online: Anti-Globalization Movement Quieter
But the movement has been mostly quiet since terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands.
The tactic struck him as overly militant and out of place when the nation was still mourning the terrorists' victims.
Anti-war movements have appeared on some U.S. campuses since President Bush announced his war on terrorism.
www.jsonline.com /news/attack/ap/oct01/ap-attacks-anti-gl101601.asp   (673 words)

  
 The Dark Side That Threatens The Anti-globalization Movement - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
In June 2002, as the Kananaskis meetings were set to churn, a protest took place called "Showdown at the Hoedown." Anti-globalization activists gathered in Calgary outside an expensive gala for bureaucrats, delegates and media hacks of the G8 summit.
The Anti-Defamation League says there is no clear evidence that AGAN is part of the National Alliance, even though its site links to the Canadian National Alliance web site, as well as to a page containing the writings of William L. Pierce [http://www.natvan.com], the hate group's leader.
When [the World Church is] speaking of globalization, we're speaking of the Zionist movement, with any number of puppets, or non-Jews working towards it," said Rev. Tom L. Kroenke, a Wyoming member and spokesman who is not ashamed to say he's part of a hate group, over the phone from Wyoming.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=40903   (1253 words)

  
 Beyond Protesting: The Ascending "Anti-Globalization" Movement - Practicalhippie.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Today's global economy is formed around the principles of what is known as "neo-liberal" economics.
There are reasons the globalization movement isn’t being covered very deeply in the mainstream press, though a story about how the movement is "dead" occasionally surfaces.
This movement has gone mainstream, and now includes church groups, senior citizens, and parents concerned about what commercialism is doing to their kids.
www.practicalhippie.com /beyond.htm   (5725 words)

  
 Anti-corporate Globalization movement
Corporate Globalization (that is, the all pervasive conglomeration of multinational corporations setting up factories and openning markets around the world, as well as the erosion and eventual dissintegration of trade barriers so that all countries are incorporated into the "free market system." This corporate globalization is made possible through the aid of treaties like:
Predatory lending entities like the IMF and World Bank will then provide funds, but at the expense of a countries natural resources which are then mandated to be utilized to repay the debt.
Education and social programs are also reduced under these loans, as the main catch for getting a loan from the IMF or World Bamk is that you have to lower your trade tarriffs and incorporate your economy into the global economy.
www.esf.edu /org/seac/globaljustice.htm   (578 words)

  
 A World Connected - Counter-Capitalism: Inside the Anti-Globalization Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Often people think of the anti-globalization movement as a spontaneous reaction against global capitalism.
His multi-part series on the anti-globalization movement, sheds new light on a phenomenon that has captured many of our imaginations.
Harding notes in his articles that the movement relies ironically upon capitalism itself for the tools (airplanes to transport protesters and cell phones, the internet, and fax machines to communicate plans, etc.) to organize and communicate its message to the world.
www.aworldconnected.org /article.php/250.html   (284 words)

  
 Wired News: Make Hate Not Anti-Globalization
In response to this move, the Anti-Defamation League has gone on the offensive against a site of the "Anti-Globalism Action Network" (g8activist.com), which could easily be accessed by mistake by those intending to visit the G8 Activist Network (g8activist.ca).
Myself, I don't consider myself part of an anti-globalization movement, but of an anti-corporate movement....
This movement is very vocally an anti-racist movement, so for racists to claim they have a role in this movement is utterly ridiculous."
www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,53844,00.html   (787 words)

  
 SSRN-Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement by Paul Segerstrom
The contents of her influential book No Logo are summarized and some problems with her analysis of globalization are discussed.
Among the topics covered are the facts about poverty and income inequality, the facts about trade liberalization and economic growth, the experience of Mexico following trade liberalization, and the implication of protest rallies for farmers in developing countries.
Segerstrom, Paul, "Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement" (December 2003).
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=482842   (331 words)

  
 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FAIR TRADE / ANTI-GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT
By focusing on only globalization and the WTO, IMF, and WB, the AFL-CIO and its allies among the environmental and other NGOs purposely direct attention away from the capitalist system which is the real cause of unemployment, sweatshop and prison labor, racist police terror, and the rise of fascism and imperialist war.
In fact, the conditions in the garment industry in LA are as horrific as in many of the foreign sweat-shops that Global Exchange and USAS target: no unions, sub-minimum wages, no benefits, no overtime, buildings full of code violations, and workers subject to physical abuse by their bosses.
The complete lack of popular support for this movement in Tibet is revealed by the fact that it had to base itself in Nepal, and its subsequent complete collapse when the CIA stopped giving it money and arms.
www.plp.org /pamphlets/antiglobal.html   (8128 words)

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